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5 Mose 27

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1 Und Mose und die Ältesten von Israel geboten dem Volke und sprachen: Beobachtet das ganze Gebot, das ich euch heute gebiete!

2 Und es soll geschehen, an dem Tage, da ihr über den Jordan in das Land hinüberziehet, das Jehova, dein Gott, dir gibt, sollst du dir große Steine aufrichten und sie mit Kalk bestreichen;

3 und wenn du hinübergezogen bist, sollst du alle Worte dieses Gesetzes auf dieselben schreiben, damit du in das Land kommest, welches Jehova, dein Gott, dir gibt, ein Land, das von Milch und Honig fließt, so wie Jehova, der Gott deiner Väter, zu dir geredet hat.

4 Und es soll geschehen, wenn ihr über den Jordan gezogen seid, so sollt ihr diese Steine, betreffs welcher ich euch heute gebiete, auf dem Berge Ebal aufrichten; und du sollst sie mit Kalk bestreichen.

5 Und du sollst daselbst Jehova, deinem Gott, einen Altar bauen, einen Altar von Steinen; du sollst kein Eisen über dieselben schwingen:

6 Von ganzen Steinen sollst du den Altar Jehovas, deines Gottes, bauen. Und du sollst Jehova, deinem Gott, Brandopfer darauf opfern,

7 und du sollst Friedensopfer opfern, und daselbst essen und dich freuen vor Jehova, deinem Gott. -

8 Und auf die Steine sollst du alle Worte dieses Gesetzes schreiben, indem du sie deutlich eingräbst.

9 Und Mose und die Priester, die Leviten, redeten zu dem ganzen Israel und sprachen: Schweige und höre, Israel! An diesem Tage bist du Jehova, deinem Gott, zum Volke geworden.

10 So gehorche der Stimme Jehovas, deines Gottes, und tue seine Gebote und seine Satzungen, die ich dir heute gebiete.

11 Und Mose gebot dem Volke an selbigem Tage und sprach:

12 Wenn ihr über den Jordan gezogen seid, sollen diese auf dem Berge Gerisim stehen, um das Volk zu segnen: Simeon und Levi und Juda und Issaschar und Joseph und Benjamin;

13 und diese sollen auf dem Berge Ebal stehen zum Fluchen: Ruben, Gad und Aser und Sebulon, Dan und Naphtali.

14 Und die Leviten sollen anheben und zu allen Männern von Israel mit lauter Stimme sprechen:

15 Verflucht sei der Mann, der ein geschnitztes oder gegossenes Bild macht, einen Greuel vor Jehova, ein Machwerk von Künstlerhand und es im Geheimen aufstellt! Und das ganze Volk antworte und sage: Amen!

16 Verflucht sei, wer seinen Vater oder seine Mutter verachtet! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

17 Verflucht sei, wer die Grenze seines Nächsten verrückt! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

18 Verflucht sei, wer einen Blinden auf dem Wege irreführt! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

19 Verflucht sei, wer das Recht des Fremdlings, der Waise und der Witwe beugt! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

20 Verflucht sei, wer bei dem Weibe seines Vaters liegt, denn er hat die Decke seines Vaters aufgedeckt! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

21 Verflucht sei, wer bei irgend einem Vieh liegt! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

22 Verflucht sei, wer bei seiner Schwester liegt, der Tochter seines Vaters oder der Tochter seiner Mutter! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

23 Verflucht sei, wer bei seiner Schwiegermutter liegt! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

24 Verflucht sei, wer seinen Nächsten im Geheimen erschlägt! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

25 Verflucht sei, wer ein Geschenk nimmt, um jemand zu erschlagen, unschuldiges Blut zu vergießen! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

26 Verflucht sei, wer nicht aufrecht hält die Worte dieses Gesetzes, sie zu tun! Und das ganze Volk sage: Amen!

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8869

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8869. 'You shall not make for yourself a graven image' means no product of self-intelligence. This is clear from the meaning of 'a graven image' as that which does not come from the Lord but from a person's self. A product of one's own understanding is meant by 'a graven image', and a product of one's own will by 'a molded image'. Having either kind as a god or venerating it is loving all that comes from self more than anything else. People who do this do not at all believe that any of their intelligence or wisdom flows in from the Divine; for they attribute it all to themselves. And everything else happening to them which they cannot attribute to themselves they relate to fortune or to chance; they altogether refuse to recognize God's providence in such matters. They suppose that if some higher power is present it lies within the natural order, to which they ascribe all things. They do, it is true, say with their lips that some God and Creator has stamped such things on the natural order; but in their hearts they refuse to recognize any God higher than the natural order. This is what those people are like who at heart attribute everything to their own prudence and intelligence, and nothing to God. And those of them who love themselves venerate their own abilities. They also wish to be venerated by others, indeed to be venerated as gods, openly so if the Church did not forbid it. These are 'the makers of graven images', and the images themselves are what they hatch from their own understanding and will, and wish to be venerated as things that are Divine.

[2] The fact that those things are meant by 'graven images' in the Word is clear from places where they are mentioned, as in Jeremiah,

Every person has been made stupid by knowledge; every metal-caster has been filled with shame by his graven image, for his molded image is a lie; and there is no spirit in those things. Jeremiah 10:14; 51:17.

Because 'a graven image' means that which does not originate in the Lord but is a product of self-intelligence, the words 'every person has been made stupid by knowledge' and 'every metal-caster has been filled with shame by his graven image' are therefore used. And because what is hatched from self-intelligence does not have within it any spiritual life, which comes solely from the Lord, the words 'and there is no spirit in those things' are also therefore used.

[3] In Habakkuk,

What profit is a graven image since its image-maker has graven it, a molded image and a teacher of lies, since the image-maker trusts in the thing he himself has made, when he makes dumb gods? It has no breath in it. 1 Habakkuk 2:18-20.

Here 'a graven image' stands for what is hatched from self-intelligence and has no life at all from the Lord within it.

[4] In Jeremiah,

A drought on its waters, and they will dry up! For it is the land of graven images, and they glory in idols. 2 Therefore the ziim dwell with the iim, and the daughters of the owl dwell in it. Jeremiah 50:38-39.

This refers to Chaldea and Babel. 'A drought on its waters, and they will dry up' stands for truths that have no life at all in them, 'the ziim and the iim and the daughters of the owl dwell' stands for evils and falsities, and so for things which inwardly belong to death This is why the words 'the land of graven images' are used.

[5] In Isaiah,

Makers of the graven image, all are vanity; and their most desirable things are profitless. And they are their own witnesses; they do not see, nor do they know. Isaiah 44:9-11.

'Makers of the graven image' stands for those who hammer out teachings which are not products of truths from the Word but products of self-intelligence, in reference to which teachings the words 'their most desirable things are profitless' and 'they do not see, nor do they know' are used. Verses 12-16 of that chapter go on to refer to the art of conceiving ideas and of using reasonings to hatch them from self-intelligence - ideas which they wish to be recognized as Divine. Regarding these the following is said finally,

The rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He venerates it, bows down [to it]. And yet they do not know or understand; and their eyes do not see, so that their hearts do not understand. Isaiah 44:17-18.

'They do not know, do not understand, and do not see' stands for the absence of truths and forms of good within; for inwardly nothing that is the outcome of self-intelligence has either truths or forms of good in it, only falsities and evils, since it is the outcome of the person's proprium. The fact that the proprium is fundamentally evil, see 210, 215, 694, 874-876, 987, 1023, 1044, 1047, 1581, 3812 (end), 4328, 5660, 5786, 8480.

[6] In the same prophet,

To whom will you liken God, and what image will you compare with Him? The craftsman casts a graven image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains for it. Whoever is too impoverished to make this oblation 3 chooses a piece of wood that will not rot; he seeks for himself a wise craftsman to make ready a graven image that is immovable. Isaiah 40:18-20.

'A graven image' cast by a craftsman stands for false teachings that spring from the self, and 'a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains for it' stands for the fact that it uses reasonings to make the falsities in those teachings look like truths.

[7] In the same prophet,

I Jehovah have called You in righteousness, to open the blind eyes, to bring the bound out of prison, out of the dungeon-house those who sit in darkness. I am Jehovah, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images. Isaiah 42:6-8.

These words refer to the Lord. They declare that He is Jehovah, that He is the Source of all wisdom, and that none at all springs from man. Their reference to the Lord is self-evident, as is the truth that He is Jehovah; for they declare that Jehovah has called Him in righteousness, and then 'I am Jehovah, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another'. The truth that He is the Source of all wisdom which has to do with life is meant when it says that He is to open the blind eyes, bring the bound out of prison, and out of the dungeon-house those who sit in darkness; and the truth that no wisdom at all springs from man is meant by 'My praise I will not give to graven images'.

[8] Ideas belonging to self-intelligence are also meant by 'graven images' in the following places: In Isaiah,

And there came the chariot of a man (vir), a pair of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babel has fallen; and all the graven images he has broken to the earth. Isaiah 21:9.

In the same prophet,

Then you will judge unclean the covering of the graven images of your silver, and the clothing of the molded image of your gold. You will throw them away like a menstruous rag; a piece of dung it will be called. Isaiah 30:22.

In Jeremiah,

Why have they provoked Me to anger through their graven images, through foreigners' idols? 4 Jeremiah 8:19.

In Hosea,

[As] they have called themselves, so they have gone for the sake of themselves. They sacrifice to the baals, and burn incense to graven images. Hosea 11:2.

In Moses,

Cursed is the man who makes a graven or a molded image, an abomination to Jehovah, the work of a craftsman's hands. Deuteronomy 27:15.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, No spirit is in the midst of it.

2. literally, horrible things

3. literally, The destitute of the oblation

4. literally, Vanities

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.